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Since I'm bad at intros, I'll get right to it:
Table of contents
Huh? What's this?
For those of you who don't already know what this is about: I'm gathering various data from all the streams that are presented on teamliquid.net (viewers, game, events, etc.) and use that data to produce the pretty tables you see below. The tables only contain SC2 players (that is, people streaming games of Starcraft 2 being played by the streamer themselves) and not casters, teams or other streams. The tables also only contain Starcraft 2 related activities. So CatZ streaming Dota2 will not be taken into account, for instance.
The list
Due to space limitations, I have to shorten the headers and leave some data out of the tables presented here. You can get the full tables from the links below.
The headers aren't as clear as I'd like them to be thanks to this, so here's a quick explanation, just in case: "Viewers" denotes the average viewers in the given month. "Hours" are the hours played. "Place diff" and "Viewer diff" are the place and viewer differences compared to last month.
Also, the HTML version linked beneath the images has some more information that I had to leave out due to space limitation, most notably the featured status of the players.
Now, Without further ado, here's this month's tables:
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202013%2004.png)
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/top%2050%202013%2004x_.png)
Stray observations
- Congratulations to DeMusliM for the #1 spot in the viewers*hours category! That's the first time in ages none of the usual suspects managed to grab that spot.
- Grubby is getting dangerously close to take Stephano's #1 spot in the other list. But for now, Stephano has the highest average viewers, as usual. That means both lists are led by EG players, who also occupy 3 of the first 5 places in each list. EG domination continues.
- There are 5 female streamers in this month's list: Livinpink, Ms. Spyte, flo, kaitlyn and Tara Babcock. Not bad! It's even more impressive considering that none of them are featured.
- While we're at it, here's some information on some of the lesser known names in the lists:
Hui:Hui is a Taiwanese player who is mostly playing in the TeSL. His fanbase seems to be found mostly outside of teamliquid and in the Taiwanese community, unsurprisingly.- Tara Babcock: She's an, ahem, model. Google her.
KingCobra: He's a Russian streamer, mostly playing daily and weekly cups.- Filter:
"Masters level Terran player", says his stream page. Couldn't find much more than that.Update: Filter is mostly known for creating awesome tutorials. Check out his thread, Bronze to Masters, Improving Mechanics! He's also associated with Quantic Gaming, though not as a player.
- Currently, I have no way of getting MC's stream numbers, since he is streaming from azubu.tv. He's not listed on teamliquid (see the other thread), and there does not seem to be an API for azubu.tv either, so it's currently not possible to get live viewer data from them. There are other SC2 streamers on azubu.tv that I am missing, too, but those would most likely not have made it into the list.
- Both halves of the casting Archon are streaming! Rejoice! Although I honestly don't know if Tasteless even streamed any SC2. Whenever I had a look at his stream, he was playing Super Mario 3.
- Notable absentees this month: Snute, Naniwa, Mana, Bomber, qxc, Nerchio
- If you find any mistakes or errors in the lists, please do let me know, especially concerning team changes or players that you are absolutely sure should be on the lists, but are not.
The big picture
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/Monthly%20viewers%202013%2004.png)
(The actual numbers are not important, it's the ratio between month that's important.)
Monthly player stream viewers are dead even. I would argue that that's a good thing.
First of all, the HotS hype is pretty much gone by now, and the viewership is steady. That's undeniably good.
Secondly, we have WCS now. That means a handful hours or more of WCS games most days, for three different time zones! It's quite likely that, with all these regular occurring tournaments now going on, people will spend less time watching player streams. And the players themselves have to spend more time preparing and playing in WCS, too.
WCS
The usual caveat applies: The GSL numbers taken below are solely those from twitch.tv, and do not include people viewing from gomtv.net or numbers from the Korean streams.
Another thing to note is that WCS EU has multiple streams for different languages. I decided to add them all up, since it is unlikely that there are that many people who watched different language streams concurrently. Still, it's entirely possible, and the WCS EU numbers are most likely a bit inflated due to this.
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/WCS%202013%2004.png)
Those are some pretty damn impressive numbers, I must say. While GSL usually did ~10.000 viewers in WoL, they do ~20.000 now. Again, the caveats mentioned above apply, but that doesn't stop the numbers from going up sharply. And WCS EU numbers are even better! Starcraft: Not dead yet. And we all know how well Dreamhack did, too!
The first WCS NA numbers aren't quite as impressive, but so far there's only been one round, so it's hard to say if future numbers will be similar.
Proleague vs. GSTL
We have GSTL numbers now! Rejoice!
As above, take these numbers with a grain of salt:
- Both Proleague and GSTL numbers are only taken from twitch.tv.
- Proleague also has a Korean stream, as well as a TV audience. Neither is taken into account here.
- As already mentioned, GSTL viewers watching from gomtv.net are not taken into account.
- In addition, the link to the current GSTL stream on teamliquid.net more often than not leads right to gomtv.net, and not to twitch.tv. When that happens, the numbers don't even take viewers from teamliquid.net into account. That would explain some of the numbers below.
![[image loading]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8028950/TL/Proleague%20GSTL%202013%2004.png)
There's not much to say: People still prefer to watch EG-TL play, unsurprisingly. And, overall, individual leagues are much more popular among us foreigners compared to team leagues. While the GSL numbers clearly benefited from HotS and the new WCS system,
neither Proleague nor GSTL numbers changed much last month.
So that's all for this month.
Hope you guys enjoyed, as always. Any kind of feedback is always welcome!
Older entries
- Top 50 streamers in March 2013 (HotS numbers!)
- Top 50 streamers in February 2013 + Proleague/GSL
- Top 50 streamers in Jan.2013+Proleague/GSL viewers
- Top 50 streamers in Dec 2012 (plus Top 100 2012!*)
- Top 50 streamers in November 2012
- Top 50 streamers in October 2012
- Top 50 streamers in September 2012
- Top 50 streamers in August 2012
- Top 50 streamers in July 2012
- Top 50 streamers in June 2012
- Top 50 streamers in May 2012
- Who is the most popular streamer?(Numbers inside!) (March-April 2012)
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